**Company:** Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. **Job Area:** Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering **General Summary:** As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. Qualcomm is looking for an experienced High Speed Interfaces SOC Architect to work on the next generation AI products in the datacenter. We are looking for a High Speed Interfaces data center engineer whose expertise spans across PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, Unified Accelerator Link (UAL), Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) and Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe) standards The selected candidate will help define the architecture and drive requirements from card/server level to a full rack. **Minimum Qualifications:** • Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. **Responsibilities:** + Understand trends in High Speed interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet and Die-to-Die (D2D) interconnectivity. + Propose data flow models and work with Software, Firmware and SOC design teams in achieving high bandwidth and low latency for end-to-end data transfers + Very good understanding of various Layers, such as Physical, Link, Transaction and Protocol layer of High Speed interfaces, + Work with Software, SOC Design teams and Card design teams in realizing the connectivity for AI Scale Up and Scale Out deployments + Architect enhancements required for deployment of next-generation AI products **Requirements:** + Deep knowledge and experience with high-performance design of PCIe and/or Ethernet interfaces. + 10+ years HW design, testing and commercialization experience + 3+ years of experience of working in datacenter related products - servers, accelerators etc. + In-depth understanding of Ordering models for PCIe , ARM and High speed Serial interfaces + Very good understanding or Error scenarios, such as PCIe-AER, PCIE-DPC. + Very good understanding of IO Virtualization , such as PCIe-SRIOV + Good knowledge of scale-up and scale-out architectures + Very good understanding of DMA engines + Willingness to work in a high-caliber international/multi-site team **Preferred Skills and Experience:** + Very good understanding of PCIE Gen6/Gen7 requirements + Very good understanding of Integrity and Data Encryption such as PCIE-IDE, PCIE-SIOV, PCIE-TDISP + Very Good knowledge of Ethernet protocols with emphasis on error recovery and virtualization + Very good understanding of various PCIE-CEM standards for PCIE Card deployments + Good understanding of new AI standards such as UCIe, UAL and UEC + Good understanding of PCIE Firmware and System Software requirements + Good understanding of High Speed Serdes such as PCIE PHY and Ethernet PHY + Good knowledge of server SOC architectures focusing on security, RAS and virtualization + Ability to work with Customer, Product Management and gather requirements Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. 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